Catholic Answers LIVE
Catholic Answers Live, hosted by Cy Kellett, is a daily, two-hour radio program dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization. According to listener surveys, it is a runaway favorite on Catholic stations across America.
As a call-in program, Catholic Answers Live connects listeners to prominent leaders in the Church today—including scholars, nuns, priests, bishops, and cardinals—and touches on every aspect of our lives as Christians. You'll hear discussions on just about everything relating to the Church: doctrinal controversies, family concerns, social issues, evangelization, ethics…you name it!
Catholic Answers Live airs every Monday through Friday from 6-8 PM Eastern (3-4 PM Pacific) on over 360 AM and FM stations in the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 130, and through the Internet at catholic.com. If you can't listen live, you can subscribe to our podcast or download individual shows from our MP3 archive.
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
08:51 – My friend told me that there’s a vision of Mary currently happening. She said that Mary is saying to stock up on nuts, honey and blessed grapes. Are you familiar with it? Is this a valid apparition?
16:30 – Did the Church have all 73 books of the bible after the council of Rome in c.398 AD?
21:30 – Why bother evangelizing to my protestant family if Christ is the center of their lives?
32:41 – How can you ask Mary to pray for you if she is a human being who has passed on? Do Catholics think you can talk to the dead?
35:20 – How can you ask Mary to pray for you if she is a human being who has passed on? Do Catholics think you can talk to the dead?
43:12 – Why are certain sexual acts not allowed in marriage, specifically sodomy?
49:38 – How do I explain to my protestant friends that Jesus gave Peter primacy in authority and not to the entire Church?
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The term transubstantiation has been used for centuries within the Church but does it actually men? William Albrecht, co-author of The Secret History of Transubstantiation joins us to explore its true meaning.
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Questions Covered:
01:42 – How do I show my protestant friends that there are more than 2 sacraments?
10:10 – I don’t think God could have saved us in any other way. Is there evidence for that?
20:15 – Who were the sons of God in Genesis?
32:00 – How do I build up trust in people after many years of not trusting others?
43:03 – I’m reading a book on exorcisms and a demon claimed that Mary is powerful. If he is a liar, could he be lying about that?
48:20 – My little sister came out of the closet. How can I help her and bring her to the truth?
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Questions Covered:
03:55 – Is it possible for sacramentals to have the same graces as sacraments? Can we make our own sacramentals?
13:45 – I’m protestant. What is the Catholic doctrine on the atonement?
19:10 – Why are some Catholics not supportive of the Catechism?
24:30 – How could we claim that the Church’s teaching were infallible if the early Christians believed that Christ would come back in their lifetime?
32:30 – How can Mary be a co-redemptrix if Jesus is the one who redeemed us?
42:05 – I’m a teacher and was tasked to teach on race and gender in a liberal school. How do I approach this as a Catholic?
49:37 – With a lack of catechesis in different parts of the world, is there an effort to bring materials in the native languages to remote parts of the world?
51:49 – How do we know whether a vision or visionary/prophet is really happening? How do we know if God is actually speaking to them?
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Questions Covered:
01:14 – How do you answer a former Mormon regarding how the church has so much money and distributes it? Why don’t they give more of it to the needy?
07:30 – Could you share your thoughts on Sirach 42:14 “Better is the wickedness of a man than a woman who does good; and it is a woman who brings shame and disgrace”? A friend said it should not be in scripture because it is “anti-Christian”.
12:43 – I heard that when we read about Abraham, we don’t read it literally. But how do we fill the gaps specifically in regard to his age?
17:09 – I have protestant friends who ask me, how can you discern sacred tradition from the tradition of man?
22:18 – Did the early Church have anything to say about abortion and same-sex marriage?
29:16 – Could sports be a sanctifying act?
42:39 – Why do we not have the same belief on the Eucharist as with Protestants? And why do we have the body and blood and they don’t?
48:33 – Protestant objections to Mary
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